The advisory seeks to add more U.S. pressure on China at a time of heightened tensions over China’s treatment of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang and Beijing’s new national security law for Hong Kong
. Commerce said that companies doing business in Xinjiang or with entities using Xinjiang labour face “reputational, economic, and legal risks” from human rights abuses, including forced labour, mass detention and forced sterilization.
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